1 New Caledonia Land Register (DITTT) data, which
exclude lakes and ponds larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq mi
or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers.

2Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

La Foa is a commune in the South
Province of New Caledonia, an overseas
territory of France in
the Pacific Ocean.

Although the provincial seat of the
South Province is in Nouméa,
La Foa was made the chief town of the
administrative subdivision of the
South in order to counterbalance
the overwhelming weight of Nouméa
in New Caledonia. Both entities share
an almost identical territory, but
their status and role is quite
different: the South Province, with
its provincial assembly in Nouméa,
is a full political division,
whereas the administrative subdivision
of the South is only an administrative
division of the French central state,
akin to an arrondissement of Metropolitan
France, with a Deputy Commissioner of the
Republic (commissaire délégué
de la République), akin to a subprefect
of metropolitan France, in
residence in La Foa.

For more information about
La Foa see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia